Quotes About Perception

When we think of the past it's the beautiful things we pick out. We want to believe it was all like that.

I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own.

Another belief of mine: that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.

Love blurs your vision; but after it recedes, you can see more clearly than ever. It's like the tide going out, revealing whatever's been thrown away and sunk: broken bottles, old gloves, rusting pop cans, nibbled fishbodies, bones. This is the kind of thing you see if you sit in the darkness with open eyes, not knowing the future.

When we think of the past it's the beautiful things we pick out. We want to believe it was all like that.

Stupidity is the same as evil if you judge by the results.

We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly.

Clothe yourself with wisdom like a robe, put knowledge upon you like a crown, and be seated upon the throne of perception.'90

Paying twenty-five dollars for me was your mistake, ma'am. I'm not worth more than fifteen.

Bessie- A man picking out a wife is like asking a cow to pick out a farmer.

My greatest enemy is reality. I have fought it successfully for thirty years.

When we are young we love our idealization of people, I suppose, and only as we grow older do we love them as they really are.

For Nature is so full of variety, that our weak Senses cannot perceive all the various sorts of her Creatures; neither is there any one object perceptible by all our Senses, no more then several objects are by one sense.

that in former ages they had been as wise as they are in this present, nay, wiser; for, said they, many in this age do think their forefathers have been fools, by which they prove themselves to be such.

Nevertheless, although they were thinner then the thinnest vapour, yet were they not so thin as the body of air, or else they would not be perceptible by animal sight.

Many people hear voices when no one is there. Some of them are called mad and are shut up in rooms where they stare at the walls all day. Others are called writers and they do pretty much the same thing.

Just because you are blind, and unable to see my beauty doesn't mean it does not exist.

Ugly. Is irrelevant. It is an immeasurable insult to a woman, and then supposedly the worst crime you can commit as a woman. But ugly, as beautiful, is an illusion.

Just because you are blind, and unable to see my beauty doesn't mean it does not exist.

When people think the world of you, be careful with them.

It was easier to ignore the consideration of paternal genes then than it would be now. We did not then consider ourselves held in the genetic trap. We thought each infant was born pure and new and holy: a gold baby, a luminous lamb. We did not know that certain forms of breast cancer were programmed and almost ineluctable, and we would not have believed you if you had told us that in our lifetime young women would be subjecting themselves to preventative mastectomies.

The dining area of the Premier Inn is geared to dispel elderly apprehensions, not to reinforce them. It is noisy and colourful and full of large busy middle-era middle England middle-aged people talking loudly and cheerfully and eating highly coloured meals, most of them from the hot red end of the spectrum.

there's a difference between what happens to one in real life and what one can make real in art.

She is pleased to see that this healthy and happy young person shares some of her metaphysical defiance. It is an exoneration.